NOAA today announced the Hydrographic Services Review Panel will hold a virtual public meeting on Sept. 23-24.
Agenda items include a NOAA request to the Panel to provide recommendations for the future development of implementation plans for the two ocean and coastal mapping strategies, discussion of a draft issue paper on “Alaska Coastal Mapping Strategy—Gaps and Priorities,” “Mapping U.S. Marine and Great Lakes Waters: Office of Coast Survey Contributions to a National Ocean Mapping Strategy,” other topics related to hydrographic surveys, nautical charting, and delays impacting the ongoing National Spatial Reference System modernization, hurricane supplemental funds and the status of coastal mapping, Physical Oceanographic RealTime System sensor enhancements and expansion, the research plan for the NOAA-University of New Hampshire Joint Hydrographic Center Cooperative Agreement, and updates on legislative and budget priorities.
The Panel is a Federal advisory committee that advises the NOAA Administrator on oceanographic and marine technologies relating to operations, research and development, and data dissemination pertaining to hydrographic surveying, shoreline surveying, nautical charting, water level, current, geodetic, geospatial, and geomagnetic measurements, and other oceanographic/marine-related sciences.
